I usually listen music with xmms, because it is relatively immune to high loadon the system (others, like VLC, give a chopped sound when the CPU is loaded).My computer is an old machine from the last century !

Unfortunately, xmms cannot read .flac format (or I do not know how to make itable to read it). So I tried audacious: I installed it, along with audacious-plugins,using gslapt; the installation ran without problem.

When I tried to run audacious (menu > multimedia > audacious) nothing happens. I then opened a console and typed "audacious": I obtained the error message"segmentation fault".

Am I the only poor fellow in the world with this problem ? Does someone know the cure ? By the way, does someone know how to make xmms able to read .flac format ?

Well, I prefer the cumbersome and stupid method : for each new file, rename theold one with a _BAK extension, and copy the new aside: In case of problem, it is always possible to remove the newly copied one and recover the good old one.Of course, with hundreds of files this becomes ridiculous; moreover, there is alwaysthe risk of human error.

I could perhaps be considered as a paranoiac, but I am very cautious with all theseautomated tools: before installing the package you spoke about, I removed flac with gslap, and... I saw gslapt remove k3b and Xine too ! I had to reinstall them, and I don't know wether I reinstalled all that was eliminated by gslapt: I can have overpassed some package that gslapt removed too quickly for me to have noted it.

"installpkg" being a console tool, it is perhaps safer ? I use now gslapt only for installs,never more for removals.

Anyway, I enjoy my flac music now with xmms. Great.

Thanks and bye

Demigaucherhappily running VL6.0 gold on a old P3@700 MHz with 382 MB ram.

I wholeheartedly agree with you with respect to gslapt and package removals. Additionally, I don't fully trust it for installation, as it some times includes a lot more than I want. It's an unfortunate side effect of the built in dependency checking. Always review the list of packages to be installed or removed before clicking that final "OK" button.

The program "installpkg" is much simpler. It only installs the specified package. But it also registers the package in the database, so it can be removed using "removepkg". Again, it only works on one package at the time, "removepkg" will not touch any other programs. So yes, it is safer to use these command line tools.